"can you handle my truth?": Authenticity and the celebrity star image

Journal of Popular Culture

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 890-907

  Meyers, Erin ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70349687065     PISSN: 00223840     EISSN: 15405931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2009.00713.x     Document Type: Article

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